Word: angers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week...
...this point Mrs. Rawlings introduces Richard Tordell, late of Tordell Manor, an embittered gentleman who fulfills all the requirements of the stage Englishman except that of dressing for dinner. With him she introduces a dull melodrama revolving around his affair with Allie, now grown to womanhood, Luke's anger, a marriage and two convenient deaths which clear the way for the Englishman's choosing a woman more suited to him and for his complete regeneration under the beneficent influence of the wilderness...
...analyses of human behavior in moments of crisis, The Cunning Mulatto is obviously modeled on the tales of Sherlock Holmes, with Author Pratt in the role of Dr. Watson asking intelligent leading questions. Although he tells little of his personal life, Detective Parker began trapping criminals because of his anger when his horse & buggy were stolen. Believing that people in times of stress act according to a few readily recognizable patterns, he was seldom led astray by strange but meaningless combinations of circumstances developed after a deed of violence. Some cases...
...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...
...hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...